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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5636616" data-attributes="member: 22424">There are 3 billion plus human women; there are no elves. Because of that, when a human player runs an elf character, there is no concept of "doing it wrong", it's all just about interpretation. But when a male player portrays a female character (or vice versa), this same is not true.In my experience, cross-gender play has almost always been a disaster. Like the cross-gender play portrayed in "The Gamers 2", only worse. Much, much worse. That said, I'm not seeing the same issues in my current campaign - it may well be a maturity issue.(It's much the same problem as the "universal roaming" mobile phone in Doctor Who, or the Macbook hacking the alien mothership in Independence Day. I have no problem with arcane and futuristic technology; I accept that as part of the genre. But I know these technologies, probably better than the writers, and I know they don't work like that, and that really causes problems.)The difference is that the DM plays huge numbers of different characters, almost all very briefly. If the portrayal is off, it's probably a matter of minutes before it's done and forgotten. A bad cross-gender PC is a problem for the duration, which may be months of play.</blockquote>